Barnes
Barnes names 4 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Barnes WILLIAM, JR., an American politician
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WILLIAM, JR., an American politician, born in 1866. He graduated from Harvard University in 1888 nver and became in the following year owner and editor of the "Albany Evening Journal." His influence and powerful personality made him one of the leading political figures in New York State. He was for several years practically the director of the Republican party in that State, although he at no time held office. His control continued until 1912, when he bitterly opposed the attempt to nominate Theodore Roosevelt at the Republican National Convention. Following the defeat of the Republican party in 1912 his influence lessened but was, however, gradually revived until he was active in the Republican Convention of 1920 and was one of the leading figures in the conservative element of that convention.
Barnes JAMES, an American writer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JAMES, an American writer, born in Annapolis, Md., in 1866. He graduated from Princeton University in 1891, was, for several years following, a member of the editorial staff of several magazines, war correspondent in South Africa from 1889 to 1901, and literary editor of D. Appleton & Co. from 1905 to 1908. Among his many books are "Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors" (1897); "The Son of Light Horse Harry" (1904); "The Clutch of Circumstance" (1908); "Through Central Africa from Coast to Coast" (1915); etc. During the World War he served as an aviator and for several months was head of the Princeton Aviation School. He was also head of the photographic division of the United States Army and was sent to France to organize the United States aviation photographic work.
Barnes GEORGE NICOLL, 1859
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
GEORGE NICOLL, 1859. He entered Parliament in 1906 as representative of the Labor party. In 1910 he was made Pensions Minister, and in 1917 became a member of the War Council. He was a delegate to the Peace Conference in Paris in 1919, and was framing of the Labor feature of the League of Nations covenant.
Barnes WILLIAM, an English poet and philologist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WILLIAM, an English poet and philologist, born in Dorsetshire, Feb. 22, 1800; wrote many books on philology; and three series of "Poems of Rural Life in the Dorsetshire Dialect" (1844, 1846 and 1863), and "Poems of Rural Life" (1866). He died in Winterbourne Came, in October, 1886.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Of the four men Collier's listed in 1921, three were then still alive and all have since closed their accounts. William Barnes Jr., described as a man who "at no time held office," had already lost the celebrated libel suit he brought against Theodore Roosevelt in 1915, and his Albany machine faded well before his death in 1930; George Nicoll Barnes broke with the Labour party in 1918 to stay in Lloyd George's coalition and died in 1940, and the writer James Barnes died in 1936. Only the fourth entry, William Barnes the Dorset poet, has grown rather than shrunk: championed by Thomas Hardy, admired by Gerard Manley Hopkins and later by Philip Larkin, he is now read as a serious craftsman of dialect verse and for his campaign to purge English of Latinate words rather than as a local curiosity.
Written for this edition, 2026.